Greener Products and Solutions

We actively integrate sustainability into the product development process and look at all phases of the product life cycle for opportunities to develop products and tools that deliver the highest performance in innovation, quality, safety and effectiveness, while minimizing environmental impact. These efforts enable our customers to carry out cutting-edge research, while positively contributing to their own environmental impact goals.

Designing products for sustainability, evaluating and selecting suppliers against sustainability criteria, pursuing green chemistry, and reducing packaging and end-of-life impact through recycling are all recognized as important aspects of greener products and solutions.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

MilliporeSigma Makes Strides Toward Smaller Footprints
MilliporeSigma is working year-round, not just on Earth Day, to provide customers with the widest range of solutions to help minimize their environmental footprint—something the company is also investing in itself.

Environment

Cleaning up Our Plastics for Recycling
As Jacqueline Ignacio Hollands, global manager, customer sustainability solutions, at MilliporeSigma explained, when it comes to plastic purification, it’s important to define cleaning versus decontamination or sterilizing.

Environment

New Flagship EU Project Focused on Replacing Toxic Solvents with Renewable Alternatives
Biotechnology company Circa Group has announced it is leading the consortium for new EU project ReSolute

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

DOZN™ 2.0: A Quantitative Green Chemistry Evaluator
Green chemistry is the concept of developing chemical products and processes that reduce the use and generation of hazardous materials, minimize waste and decrease demand on diminishing resources.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Breathing New Life Into Old Lab Equipment
In light of growing concern over the accumulation of single-use and disposable products, new recycling solutions have emerged.

Environment

Green Chemistry: The Secret Behind Sustainable Product Development
Jeffrey Whitford, head of corporate responsibility and branding for the research and biotech company MilliporeSigma, described the challenge last week in an interview with TriplePundit.

Environment

Jeannette Company Becomes Leader in Recycling Biopharmaceutical Waste
Triumvirate Environmental has a new way to help the pharmaceutical industry recycle plastic waste.

Environment

Recycling Biopharma Plastics into Lumber Products
Global biopharmaceutical products supplier MilliporeSigma has partnered with specialty waste management company Triumvirate Environmental to recycle the commingled single-use plastic scrap into saleable lumber products.

Responsible Production & Consumption

MilliporeSigma Employee Spotlight: Ettigounder Ponnusamy
As part of our employee spotlight series, we’re sitting down with Ettigounder (Samy) Ponnusamy, fellow and global manager, green chemistry at MilliporeSigma, to learn more about the work he’s doing to move the needle. The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

MilliporeSigma Launches Four-Year Push for Packaging Sustainability
The quest for supply-chain sustainability requires paying as much attention to the package as the product inside it.

That necessity that doesn’t escape global life science leader MilliporeSigma. The company has launched a four-year effort to enforce green packaging for well over 300,000 products, translating into some 30,000 shipments a day.
The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

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